I would LOVE to just be in the room at one of those top secret Marvel Editorial Summits! Imagine all the great writers and editors pitching, fighting, and collaborating! At Emerald City Comicon Matt Fraction, Ed Brubaker and C.B. Cebulski said you will see inside the famous summits via MTV Geek’s Avengers Vs. X-Men War Journals. Here’s episode which takes you inside the creative storm and lays out everything you need to know to enjoy AvX.
These ideas have been running in my head and really come to the forefront after reading AvX #1 so I want to share them. These are not facts just my thoughts about the future of this series and the Marvel universe.
– The Phoenix Force created the mutant gene in humanity. They’re not Children of the Atom after all.
– Cyclops has been under the influence of The Void.
– The Sentry/Void will return to challenge the Phoenix Force.
– Professor X will take back leadership of mutantkind.
– Namor’s allegiance to the X-Men will be severed in AvX.
– Emma Frost knows in her heart Cyclops is wrong and believes Hope is a threat but she will not betray him. I think Emma will pay a terrible price as a result of AvX.
– Hope is not Jean Grey reincarnated. I think Hope may be connected to Madelyn Pryor somehow and this ties into Matt Fraction’s Sisterhood story during his Uncanny run. Which means Sinister is involved.
– Hope and the Five Lights are manifestations come to life like when Scarlet Witch created her sons.
– Jean Grey will not return in physical form but she will appear to Emma Frost from the White Hot Room.
With that line Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) explodes into action in a new scene from Marvel’s The Avengers. Does the passionate response from the superspy signal that the Widow and Hawkeye aka Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) are more than fellow SHIELD agents? He’s a lucky guy as you’ll see below.
Fan Expo Vancouver will unite all fans of comics, gaming, anime, horror, and sci-fi. Fan Expo Canada is coming to Vancouver, British Columbia April 21st and 22nd.
AvX: Vs. cover courtesy Marvel.com and Comics Newsarama
I just made my plans to attend the big event just a new hours north of my home in Seattle.Great news to make you geek out: the expo added Marvel penciller Stuart (Avengers, Fear Itself) and writer Kathryn Immonen (Pixie Strikes Back, Wolverine and Jubilee, )to the guest list. The Immonens will work together on AvX Vs #1
MI6 reports that Greek actress Tonia Sotiropoulou will join the cast of the new James Bond film Skyfall and begin filming on location in Istanbul, Turkey later this month.
“This is the happiest day of my life so far! I feel very lucky and blessed, but basically, I am very grateful that this happened, for my family and my friends who believe in me and support trying to do. I will do the best, I am very proud because somehow it might be something that will advertise in Greece and I am happy about it,” the actress said to local press in her home country.
Sotiropoulou auditioned for the role of Severine but went to Berenice Marlohe.
Night of the Owls screeches into comic book shops next. The Council of Owls unleash their army of Talons on Gotham City. The event will slash across all the Batman family titles. DC revealed the cover to Detective Comics #9 by Tony Daniel as Batman battles three Talons.
Matt Fraction at AvX party @ Excalibur Comics photo by Kyle Helstien of Happy Robot Photography
Eager fans lined up to celebrate and be the first to get Avengers Vs. X-Men #1 at more than 1,100 comic book stores worldwide. Retailers voted to stand with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes or the Children of the Atom. Customers got exclusive posters, buttons and other swag celebrating their chosen team.
AvX writer Matt Fraction and Editor C.B. Cebulski appeared at Excalibur Comics in Portland to get the party started. Thanks to Kyle Heinstiein of Happy Robot Photography. You can see more of this great shots at this Portland Pulp gallery link.
I was the first to buy at Zanadu Comics in Seattle. I “ooooooed” and “aahhhhhed” as Perry unloaded the copies, variants, buttons and lithographs!
Cyclops believes the return of the Phoenix could save his race. He is defying Captain America and triggered war. AvX will see the mutant leader tested like never before. I wanted to share more of Kieron Gillen’s new Marvel.com interview. Gillen’s response to Jim Beard’s question about who benefits and grows from AvX was revealing.
“I’ve said before, I’ve been building towards AvX. It’s meaningful for all my key cast. The big people to watch? Scott, Namor, Hope, Emma, Piotr, Illyana and Danger. My other three—Storm, Magneto and Psylocke—have important roles too, but perhaps not on the same level of redefining them. They’re actually more the people who are a half-step back from the chaos, and as such are about giving perspective on everything.
“Benefit” is an interesting word, though. I’m not sure it’s the word I’d use. It’s going to be very hard on all of them.”
Gillen’s role as the main writer for Scott for past year prepping him for AvX:
“The key arc for cementing Cyclops as a man who would go to war with the Avengers was the Fear Itself arc, just prior to the relaunch. There he works side with side with the humans of San Francisco, only to discover that they were considering—if all went wrong—to deal with the threat to them both and sell out the mutants, sinking Utopia.
Cyclops goes and saves the day anyway, only to return to actually openly threaten the mayor with murder if she ever thinks of it ever again. It’s a “Just because we save you, don’t go thinking you get to sacrifice us”.
It’s a hardened line—willing to be an implicit threat while still acting in an entirely morally upright fashion—which is where we find Scott. He’s pretty much said this Extinction Squad is a nuclear weapon which he’ll fire if someone crosses them. AvX is, in a real way, them calling his bluff.”
For the entire interview here’s the Marvel.com link.
This Geek’s Opinion: Cyclops has been the leader the mutants need in a desperate time. Scott will pay a heavy price in AvX but he’s right and I’ll back Cyclops every time.
